INSPIRATION:Modern Painting, especially early cubists, identified congruence in the juxtaposition of typical settings of dramatically different scale and proximity - table, bottle, newspaper, distant landscape, weather and daylight - that create, albeit abstract, a more whole or thicker experience. A table, table setting, window, light and sound and shadows are mutually and reciprocally intertwined.

UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:Near Far House involves itself in the ability, or counter-positioning of a structure, to acknowledge a specific matrix of landscape engagements. Architecture integrates a vicinity. Less an object than a series of configurations, each is a hinge or pivot in a matrix of engagements.

OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:The Near Far house achieves an interior integration of landscape elements that appear as 'near' site conditions to the north with 'far' conditions to south and are experienced simultaneously on the upper floor. The living area moreover is continuous and expansive with internalized outdoor settings that capture similar conditions.

RESEARCH ABSTRACT:Research consisted of an in-depth exploration of the nature of enclosure on this site, and thereby opening up the possibility of invention. So too materials and the inherent features of the site played into what the enclosure could maximally become, in order to embrace, and work with site and material issues and how they impacted the work of the enclosure.

CHALLENGE: The most difficult creative challenge consisted in the integration of a new, single family residential construction with that of an pre-existing 1970's single family home, and make the two units appear contemporaneously composed, while at the same time, not replicating the older vocabulary, but offering a construction of its own time.

PROFILE:The family that commissioned this work are a husband wife lawyer team and their two daughters who had recently moved from Florida - a southern US coastal environment - to a Rocky Mountain perch located 8,000 feet above sea level. They remain far happier in this well designed, smaller home than their overly large home they left behind in Florida, USA.

NOMINATION DETAILS

Near Far House Single Family Residential by Willis Pember is a Nominee in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category.

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AWARD DETAILS

Near Far House Single Family Residential by Willis Pember is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2017 - 2018.

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